Jay David Bolter

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Jay David Bolter (born August 17, 1951 ) is one of the most important thought leaders on the theory of electronic writing and hypertext alongside Vannevar Bush , Ted Nelson and Jakob Nielsen .

Life

Jay David Bolter received his Ph.D. in Classics in 1977 and a Master's degree in Computer Science (MS) in 1978 from the University of North Carolina.

Bolter researches the cultural and social significance of the computer ( Turing's Man , 1984) and hypertext ( Writing Space , 1991):

"The term computer literacy has been taken to mean either the ability to operate a computer [...] or a technical knowledge of programming and concepts of computer science [...] we have been exploring a different and more general definition of computer literacy: the ability to read and write in the computer medium and an understanding of how the computer fits into the long tradition of the technologies of writing "
"Each element in this network may be a word, a sentence, a paragraph, and it may be related to as many other elements as the author or the reader (who is also an author) cares to define [...] The key is the electronic link, which allows us to build and explore trees or networks, to turn trees into hypertext " (Bolter in Writing Space ).

His current interests are in the area of annotation and remediation ( Remediation , 2000).

Together with Michael Joyce he developed the hypertext system Storyspace .

Publications

  • 1984: Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age . University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807841080 (German edition: The digital fist. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1990)
  • 1991: Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing . Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 0-8058-0427-7 and ISBN 1-56321-067-3 ( review )
  • 2000: Remediation: Understanding New Media . MIT Press. ISBN 0262024527 (with Richard Grusin ; description )
  • 2001: Controlling Voices . Southern Illinois University Press (with Tyanna K. Herrington)
  • 2002: Integrating 2-D Video Actors into 3-D Augmented Reality Systems . MIT Press (with Blair MacIntyre, Marco Lohse and Emmanuel Moreno)
  • 2003: Windows and Mirrors (with Diane Gromala). MIT Press

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personal data
SURNAME Bolter, Jay David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1951